Genuine Soundware and Instruments has announced the release of a new Rhodes electric piano emulation based on hybrid synthesis modeling.
Magic Tines continues GSi’s legacy in electric piano emulation that began in 2005 with the release of a simple freeware plugin that evolved into a shareware product, eventually ending up in some hardware products such as the GSi Gemini, the Crumar Seven, Seventeen, and Mojo61.
In digital territory, the sound of a Rhodes piano is an important part of every digital piano / keyboard / workstation, and is reproduced mainly using samples, and in a few cases using some kind of synthesis. The Crumar Seven is one example of a hardware digital piano that uses real Physical Modeling to recreate the sound of a Tine Piano, i.e. it doesn’t use any samples to recreate the sound, just real-time math calculations.
GSi Magic Tines uses a different approach, which consists in both sampling and modeling, whereas all attack and release transients come from recordings of real life electric pianos, and the body of each note is recreated by a special synthesizer that uses math functions to simulate the exact behavior of a steel tine being struck by a rubber hammer tip. What is excluded by the synthesis engine is compensated by the sampled material. In other words, the best of the two worlds.
Priced €50 EUR (ex. VAT where applicable), Magic Tines is available as standalone software for desktop and iOS, and in VST/VST3, AU and AUv3 plugin formats.
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